Books Read in 2006

I read a total of 70 books this year! My goal was 52. :)
I started working on some literary classics I'd somehow missed. White Fang had an especially eye-opening point of view. Although I hadn't gotten far into Moby Dick, I can tell this is a real gem. I've tried a few new authors. James Patterson is very entertaining, and Nicholas Sparks must be read with a box of kleenex. I've started on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot books, and am absolutely delighted. Now I know where they got the basic ideas for the tv series Monk. G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday has to be the year's strangest read. Anne Rice's Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt provided some interesting insight into Christ's early years. As usual, Janet Evanovich's works provided lots of laughs. Jasper Fforde's books were also quite funny and a wonderful mental break from the grimness of some of my reads.

For 2007 I hope to tackle my TBR stack more aggressively, read more classics, and do more with audiobooks. And see if I can make 87 reads for the year!
So many books, so little time! :)

In progress on December 31:  
         
         Something Rotten ~ Jasper Fforde
         Moby Dick ~ Hermann Melville
         
 
David Baldacci [1]
        The Camel Club 6/17/6

Lawrence Block [1]
        The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep 7/19/6

Lillian Jackson Braun [1]
        The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell 1/7/6 

James Calder [1]
        In A Family Way 10/21/6

Marion Chesney/M C Beaton [5]
        Snobbery with Violence 2/4/6
        Hasty Death 2/8/6
        The Death of a Dreamer 3/14/6
        Agatha Raisin & the Wellspring of Death 8/8/6
        Our Lady of Pain 10/2/6

G K Chesterton [1]
        The Man Who Was Thursday 1/28/6

Agatha Christie [2]
        The Mysterious Affair at Styles 11/9/6
        Murder On the Links 12/14/6

Michael Connelly [2]
        The Black Ice 3/2/6
        The Lincoln Lawyer 5/25/6

Diane Mott Davidson [1]
        Dark Tort 9/29/6

Nelson DeMille [1]
        Mayday (with Thomas Block) 11/2/6

Janet Evanovich [2]
        Twelve Sharp 6/21/6
        Metro Girl 12/27/6

Jasper Fforde [2]
        Lost in a Good Book 3/18/6
        The Well of Lost Plots 4/11/6

C S Forester [5]
        Mr Midshipman Hornblower 5/13/6
        Lieutenant Hornblower 6/24/6
        Hornblower & The Hotspur 7/13/6
        Hownblower During the Crisis 8/4/6
        Hornblower & the Atropos 9/12/6

Diana Gabaldon [1]
        A Breath of Snow & Ashes 1/13/6 

Sue Grafton [1]
        S is For Silence 6/30/6

Brian Haig [1]
        The President's Assassin 1/24/6

P D James [7]
        The Lighthouse 2/22/6
        Original Sin 6/7/6
        The Skull Beneath The Skin 7/7/6
        The Black Tower 7/31/6
        A Taste for Death 9/2/6
        Devices and Desires 10/16/6
        Murder Room 11/30/6

C.S. Lewis [3]
        The Silver Chair * 11/21/6
        The Horse & His Boy * 11/23/6
        The Last Battle * 11/29/6

Jack London [2]
        The Call of the Wild 1/31/6
        White Fang 2/21/6

Yann Martel [1]
        Life of Pi * 12/29/6

Patrick O'Brian [5]
        The Truelove 1/6/6
        The Wine-Dark Sea 2/18/6 
        The Commodore 3/11/6
        The Yellow Admiral 4/1/6
        The Hundred Days 4/26/6

Perri O'Shaughnessy [3]
        Presumption of Death 3/22/6 
        Unlucky In Law 5/20/6
        Case of Lies 6/12/6

Robert B Parker [3]
        School Days 3/15/6
        Sea Change 5/17/6
        Blue Screen 9/26/6

James Patterson [7]
        Along Came A Spider 7/25/6
        Kiss The Girls 8/15/6
        1st to Die 9/15/6
        Jack & Jill 9/23/6
        2nd Chance 10/25/6
        Cat & Mouse 11/6/6
        Pop Goes the Weasel 12/20/6
        3rd Degree 12/21/6

Anne Rice [1]
        Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt 12/6/6

Alice Sebold [1]
        The Lovely Bones 10/31/6

Nicholas Sparks [3]
        A Walk to Remember 10/4/6
        The Notebook 10/22/6
        Message In A Bottle 11/12/6

Leo Tolstoy [1]
        The Forged Coupon 1/17/6

Rick Warren [1]
        The Purpose Driven Life 4/6/6

Stuart Woods [3]
        Two-Dollar Bill 2/23/6 
        Iron Orchid 4/29/6
        Dark Harbor 8/9/6

 

  * audiobook

Read in 2006: 70
January 2006: 7 books        July 2006: 5 books
February 2006: 6 books       August 2006: 4 books
March 2006: 6 books          September 2006: 6 books
April 2006: 5 books          October 2006: 7 books
May 2006: 4 books            November 2006: 8 books
June 2006: 6 books           December 2006: 6 books